By one view of memory – recall makes memories stronger – the EMDR result might seem paradoxical. Making traumatic memories stronger helps? But there's also the theory that recall is really recall-and-re-store, perhaps modified, so maybe EMDR helps recast the same memories to be less loaded. Per Wikipedia there's still some controversy over EMDR.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_movement_desensitization_an...
Here's an example of eye-movements improving certain kinds of recall:
http://www.livescience.com/1473-moving-eyes-improves-memory-...
By one view of memory – recall makes memories stronger – the EMDR result might seem paradoxical. Making traumatic memories stronger helps? But there's also the theory that recall is really recall-and-re-store, perhaps modified, so maybe EMDR helps recast the same memories to be less loaded. Per Wikipedia there's still some controversy over EMDR.